Drinking bees

The weather has been cold in Atlanta and the bees have been balled up in their hives. Today it was warm and relatively sunny and the bees were drinking from my water source all day long. The water source is filled with old leaves and gunk - not clean and beautiful like it was during the summer - and they loved it. I saw as many as five at a time, all drinking by sticking their tongues into the holes in the brick and sucking up the water.